Opposition parties mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Marking Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust on Tuesday, the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), Socialists and LMP called for the rejection of violence and hatred. Ferenc Gyursany, the leftist DK's leader, noted in a statement that the forced ghettoisation of Hungarian Jews started on April 16, 1944. "Some deny the Holocaust ever happened," Gyurcsany said. "But we remember that day 75 years ago." The Socialists said in a statement that the Hungarian government in 1944 had betrayed the victims of the Holocaust by "exposing them to a politics of hatred and by cooperating in robbing them, rounding them up and deporting them; and, in effect, in their murder." LMP co-leaders Marta Demeter and Laszlo Lorant Keresztes said in a statement that the memorial day should be dedicated to grief, commemoration and should serve as a warning to future generations that everyone is responsible for the protection of human dignity and equality.